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Your API as a Product: Thinking like a Product Manager [VIDEO]

The video for the talk I gave at the 2018 API Conference is now available online.

I have talked about a bit before, as well as sharing the slides, but one of my main take-aways is that we are all (mostly) in the business of building products - on a daily basis, whether we are coding, write docs, tests, change requests, specifications, designs - there is almost always an end product of our work, and the product decisions we make whilst building it has a direct impact on the end-users (people will have to read/amend your code, read your specifications, translate your designs, consume your APIs etc). With that in mind, it seems sensible that we look at what lessons we can take from the discipline of Product Management to help us make smart decisions in our day-to-day.
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API Conf 2018 - Product Management for Engineers

Last week I attended and spoke at the 2018 API Conference in Berlin.

Having written about the topic before, my talk was titled: Your API as a Product - Thinking like a Product Manager (really aimed at engineers/architects/technologists).

It was recorded, so hopefully I will be able to share the video in the future, but the thrust of the talk was based around the concept that we are all building products on some level, and even if we don't have direct input into a commercial product that we might be writing code for, we have some output: code, bug reports, designs etc. So it makes sense, if we are all building products, and those products will all have users and therefore a user experience (your code, bug reports, design docs etc will be used by others, or maybe you yourself will be the user), that we try and learn from the discipline of Product Management, as it is focussed on building better products and better user experiences for the end users.

Slides are below, and really your best bet is to scroll down to the references section at the end and start watching the real Product Managers' talks.
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JAXLondon 2017: Agile Machine Learning [VIDEO]

Last October a colleague and I gave a talk at the JAXLondon Conference about Machine Learning in an agile, commercial environment (I then also gave the talk again in November in Munich at the W-JAX Conference).




The video of the talk is now available - the first half (and end section) is mostly softer stuff, where I talk about lessons learnt from doing ML research in a commercial environment and the middle section is my colleague, Sumanas, talking about how Word2Vec works and some more interesting demos of using it in an interesting application!




In related conference speaking news, I will be in Berlin next month for the API Conference to talk about Product Management and API Design: https://apiconference.net/api-design-documentation/your-api-as-a-product-thinking-like-a-product-manager/
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